346 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 



The following resolution offered by Prof. W. F. Allen was 

 adopted: 



Resolved, That Secretary, Librarian and Curator compose a committee 

 to have charge of the books and collections of the Academy. 



The following resolution offered by Prof. R. C. Hindley 

 was adopted: 



Resolved, That the Academy favors and will foster to the best of its 

 ability the establishment of Local, Literary and Scientific societies 

 throughout the state. 



Resolution offered by Prof. O. M. Conover was adopted, as 

 follows: 



Resolved, That the oflScers of the Academy be requested to unite with 

 those of the State Historical Society in urging upon the Legislature at its 

 next session the importance of providing a suitable fire-proof building for 

 the u?e of the Historical Library and the collections of the Academy and 

 of the other State Societies. 



Academy adjourned for dinner. 



THIRD SESSION. 



Wednesday afternoon, 2:30 P, M. 



In the lecture room of Natural History of Science Hall, 

 University of Wisconsin. 



President Irving in the chair. 



The following papers by Rev. S. D. Peet, were read by 

 title: 



1. On Animism among the Emblematic Mound Builders. 



2. On the Fetichism Exhibited in the Village Sites and 

 Burial Places of Emblematic Mound Builders. 



3. On the Tablets and Inscribed Plates of the Mound 

 Builders of Ohio and Iowa compared with Aztec, Persian 

 and Hindoo symbols. 



4. The Theory that the Mounds of the Ohio Valley were 

 the Foundations of Communistic Houses Refuted. 



A paper was read by Mr. R. D. Salisbury, assistant to Prof. 

 Chamberlin, of Beloit, on " The Dispersion of Drift Copper." 

 Discussed by Professors Irving, Butler and Chamberlain. 



Prof. Birge gave an extempore lecture on " Recent Ob- 



